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Google Project Tango is a hardware and software platform which brings 3D environmental sensing to Android devices. This tag should be used only on questions that are about Google's Project Tango features or Project Tango SDK technical issues. The tag [tango] should be used to ask about the library written in the "D" programming language.

Google Project Tango was deprecated on March 1st, 2018. Google is continuing AR development with ARCore (developers.google.com/ar), a new platform designed for building augmented reality apps for a broad range of devices without the requirement for specialized hardware.

Google Project Tango is a hardware and software platform which brings 3D environmental sensing to Android devices. It offers six degree of freedom motion tracking, area learning, and depth perception capabilities.

Project Tango technology gives a mobile device the ability to navigate the physical world similar to how we do as humans. Project Tango brings a new kind of spatial perception to the Android device platform by adding advanced computer vision, image processing, and special vision sensors.

Google renamed the product from "Project Tango" to simply "Tango" as the official product name on June 9, 2016.
Note that this tag should be used only on questions that are about Google's Project Tango features or Project Tango SDK technical issues. The tag should be used to ask about the library written in the "D" programming language.

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Cannot update Tango Core - "Package file was not signed correctly"

Got my Tango tablet last night and tried to get it going by installing required packages. Updating "Project Tango Core" app failed. Here's the error I get: Anybody else seen this and know how to fix it? Here's some info that may be required:
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Are project tango apps backwards compatible with ARcore enable android devices?

I noticed that Google seemed to replace their project Tango initiative with something called ARcore and I was wondering if ARcore enabled devices could also work with apps that were originally intended to work with project Tango devices.
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How to integrate Point Cloud Library With Unity Google tango project?

I am currently working with Google Tango in Unity and i want to integrate Point Cloud Library(PCL) in order to process the point cloud data and segment the planes.I couldn't find any online references on this, so any help would be much appreciated
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Tango API linking against private native libraries API24+

Are there any solutions for this problem? Running the Tango API displays a warning dialog on the library Our team has the same problem. The guide mentioned doesn't really help. Not "libtango_client_api.so" is private, as far as i did…
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Tango being plagued by unidentifiable automatic gain reduction

We bought a Lenovo Phab2PRO to do some development of Android apps which take advantage of Google Project Tango's localization technology. We are finding that not only our app (which uses AudioRecord), but several other apps (e.g. the default Sound…
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File size limit for extending ADFs?

I made a few experiments with extending ADFs and discovered an apparent file size limit for extending ADFs. All ADFs larger than around 60MB would cause the Tango Service to stop, after some time I get a TangoErrorException in my own app and a…
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Tango: Why Intrinsic data from RGB camera and not from depth camera for point cloud projection?

I was reading in the forum and this post caught my attention, since I had to perform the same operation. The accepted answer although uses the intrinsic data of the RGB Camera, which I do not understand. Why not use the intrinsic data of the depth…
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How do I access the Tango's depth information while using OpenCV functions

I'm trying to use OpenCV in a Tango app to perform some CV tasks. I also need the Tango's depth information for some other stuff, but using OpenCV's camera object blocks the onXyzIjAvailable() method from being called. As a workaround I'm trying to…
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How to set the tango camera exposure and iso parameters from c#/Unity

I'm trying to disable the camera auto-exposure. According to the docs here, https://developers.google.com/project-tango/apis/c/reference/group/config-params , it's possible to set the color_mode_auto, color_exp and color_iso values in the…
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Using Area Description Files (ADF) in 3D Reconstruction

I've been exploring 3D scanning and reconstruction using Google's project Tango. So far, some apps I've tried like Project Tango Constructor and Voxxlr do a nice job over short time-spans (I would be happy to get recommendations for other potential…
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Augmented Reality: Positioning 3d objects using Project Tango

I'm working on Augmented reality using Project Tango. After loading adf file I place a 3d object to each positions those are marked during area learning process, and it adds 3d objects I expected 3d object to be static as those objects were placed…
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Occlusion in AR

I'm trying make virtual objects be hidden when a real world object is positioned in front of it, but not having any luck with it, i've been playing with the occlusion settings in unity but the virtual objects do not become hidden?
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How to detect an absolute rotation of an android device

I'm looking to implement a robot that is navigating indoor, using a software running on an android device. One mandatory feature is to know the robot orientation in "real time". I have one major constraint : the android device should be placed with…
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How to get the AR example running for Unity using Google's tango example

So I am starting out to do some projects in Tango using Unity. I cloned the examples from their github (https://github.com/googlesamples/tango-examples-unity) and tried running their Experimental Augmented Reality example. So I figured out how to…
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Does the project tango tablet work outdoors?

I'm looking to develop an outdoor application but not sure if the tango tablet will work outdoors. Other depth devices out there tend to not work well outside becuase they depend on IR light being projected from the device and then observed after it…
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